Gage for scissors or shears for gaging folds, ruffles, bands, &amp;c.



No. 792,948. PATENTED JUNE 20, 1905.

P. M. UNDBRKUFFLER.

GAGE FOR SGISSGRS OR SHEARS FOR GAGING POLDS, RUFPLES, BANDS, 8w.

APPLIUATION FILED APR, 26, 1904.

No. 792,9a8.

NITED STATES Patented June 20, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

FRANKLIN M. UNDERKUFFLER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

GAGE FOR SCISSORS 0R SHEARS FOR GAGING FOLDS, RUFFLES, BANDS, 8w.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 792,948, dated June 20, 1905.

Application filed April 26, 1904. Serial No. 205,026.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN M. UNDER- KUFFLER, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Gages for Shearsfor Dressmakers and Others, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a device which can be attached quickly to any shears to gage the width of strips of fabric or material as cut for ruffles, folds, bands, &c., for ladies or cliildrens clothing, the device being illustrated by Figure 1 in the accompanying drawings and consists of two parts. Fig. 2 represents the first part, which consists of a graduated plate and sliding device so formed that in addition to carrying a tube to receive a lead-pencil or other marking device it will receive and hold firmly by a thumb-screw the arm of the second part of the gage device, which is represented by Fig. 3. The fork of this second part attaches directly at the joint and screw of any shears, as will be hereinafter set forth.

The graduated plate and sliding pencilholder illustrated by Fig. 2 are covered by Letters Patent No. 750,221, granted me J anuary 19, 1904:, for a gage and marker, the only change of note in my new plate being that it consists of a solid graduated plate, the

tube or pencil-holder attached to the carryv ing-plate moving at the side of the plate instead of through a longitudinal slot, .as shown in said Letters Patent.

Referring to the drawings herewith, similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

A designates a graduated plate, which serves as the base for the sliding device B. That part of device B underneath or opposite the graduated side of plate A is designated O and forms a clamp for the thumb-screw D, which passes through the roof of device B and holds that device at the desired graduation on plate A.

The space formed at the junction of A and B and spanned by the perpendicular sides of device B, as well as the roof of said device B and top of plate A, is designated E. Rising .of the material to be cut or marked and serves to guide the device true over the material.

Referring to Fig. 3 and that part of the gage attachment which fastens directly to the shears, the corrugated fork-shaped device (designated J) serves as a clamp to fasten to the screw and joint of the shears. This device J is provided with a swivel Kin the one prong or wall, said swivel having a ridge M to enter the groove in the head of the screw found at the joint of any regular shear. The opposite prong or wall of device J is provided with the thumb-screw N, and attached to the end of said screw and revolving on a pivot is the concave cap O, which is adapted to fit over the protruding point of the screw in the shear and clamp against the side of the shear, thus holding securely to and parallel with the shear the arm P. This .arm is adapted to slide freely through the space E of the first part and to hold in the desired position the graduated plate A, as fastened by screw D. The graduated plate A is intended to rest on the point of the shear and can be adjusted on arm P, so as to accommodate any length shear. The operation is as follows: Swivel K is turned to the position necessary for ridge M to enter into the groove in the head of the screw in the joint of the shears to be used, after which the fork-shaped device, Fig. 3, is firmly fastened to said screw and that side of the shear coming in contact with the concave cap 0 by means of the thumb-screw N. By then passing arm P through the space E the graduated plate A is brought to a position where it will rest on the point of the shear as well as on arm P. In this position said plate A is held by screw D after havingbeen adjusted so that the graduation at the meet- .of the strip of material to be cut.

ing of the blades of the shear agrees in inches or fractions thereof with the desired width The edge of the material to be cut is then placed in the elbow H and the shear operated and moved forward, being guided true by said elbow over the material.

I am aware that prior to my invention shears with gage attachments have been made; but such gages can be adjusted only to shears made especially to receive such gages or are attached at different positions on the shear and in a diflerent manner from that herein set forth. I therefore do not claim a gage- Shear broadly; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a gage for shears, a member U-shaped at one extremity provided in one of the parallel walls of said extremity with a swivel, shaped to engage one end of the screw or pivot of the shear, and in the opposite wall with a screw having a concavity at its end adapted to engage the opposite end of said pivot, whereby the gage may be clamped to said pivot.

2. In a gage for shears, amember U-shaped at one extremity to clamp at the pivot in the joint of any shear, or to clamp the one end of the pivot and the shear on the opposite side, said member provided at the other extremity with an arm on which to fasten a graduated plate, said plate guiding the shear while in operation true the desired distance from the edge of the cloth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

FRANKLIN M. UNDERKUFFLER.

Witnesses:

WALTER S. MARCH, WILLIAM S. RANoK. 

